The fake news element tests skills like whether a student can tell when data is being
presented in a misleading way, and whether students can distinguish between facts, opinions, and propaganda.
As early as June 2014, we pointed out Valeant was
presenting itself in a misleading way.
Not exact matches
It's maybe one reason why people are so easily
misled into climate change denial when there don't seem to be any definitive and reliable sources of data that are open to the public where information is
presented in various different
ways that most ordinary people are interested
in.
For the past two weeks, the
misleading way in which the Chancellor
presented both his first and last Budget has been headline news.
I will spend a bit of time going over this and the next study cited by CarbSane and
presented here, as they are excellent examples of really bad science (if that word should even be used at all) that are very
misleading, and they
in no
way support the position that increasing carbohydrate intake is healthy... at best perhaps only somewhat less unhealthy than worse diets.
In short, it's not that Mr Zacharius or Ms Rusch is «wrong» or presenting «misinformation» — it's that they're each talking about specific circumstances («boundary conditions») that are not being made explicit or being compared, and are being themselves slightly misled by treating «publishing» as a single industry (instead of as a collection of thirteen distinct industries unified not by anything internal, but by where its «products» made their way to the ultimate end - user... in the 1970s
In short, it's not that Mr Zacharius or Ms Rusch is «wrong» or
presenting «misinformation» — it's that they're each talking about specific circumstances («boundary conditions») that are not being made explicit or being compared, and are being themselves slightly
misled by treating «publishing» as a single industry (instead of as a collection of thirteen distinct industries unified not by anything internal, but by where its «products» made their
way to the ultimate end - user...
in the 1970s
in the 1970s).
And do large discrepancies run counter to FCAC's requirement to
presenting mortgage prepayment information
in a
way that is «clear, simple and not
misleading?»
His answer was quite vague, and IGN updated the slightly
misleading headline after the fact for clarity, but some media outlets and blogs still
presented it
in a rather positive
way.
We do not find that the
way that data derived from tree rings is described and
presented in IPCC AR4 and shown
in its Figure 6.10 is
misleading.
Lawyers (and politicians) are permitted / expected to abandon their «integrity» and
present biased or incorrect information
in ways they personally know is
misleading because they participate
in a system where «truth» is found through an adversarial process that guarantees both side equal time before an unbiased jury.
To me, the word «fraud» means that someone has
presented data
in a
way that was intentionally
misleading.
What is far more common is that inexperience leads someone to
present data
in a
way that seems reasonable, but ends up being
misleading.
The
way in which the results of this survey have been
presented to and promoted by the media is extremely
misleading.
Koonin
presents information without its proper context, and
in a deliberately
misleading way.
They're
presented in a
way that's
misleading, they're not given any actual scientific context, or they're outright wrong.
My point being that there is a lot of science
in IPCC AR4 that is accurate, but
presented in such a
way that it is completely
misleading.
The best I can come up with is to credit the legal profession for
presenting itself
in such a
way as to make even a jaded guy like the 2002 version of me think that a law school would never have the nerve (or the need) to intentionally
mislead potential students about their employment prospects.
manipulating (e.g.,
presenting content developed by others) listing content
in any
way that produces a deceptive or
misleading result; or
b. manipulate (e.g.,
presenting content developed by others) listing and other content
in any
way that produces a deceptive or
misleading result;